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allowed application.See PATENT APPLICATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

allowance. 1. A share or portion, esp. of money that is assigned or granted. allowance pendente lite.See temporary alimony under ALIMONY. backhaul allowance.A price discount given to customers who get their goods from a seller’s warehouse as a reflection of the seller’s freight-cost savings. family allowance.A portion of a decedent’s estate set aside by statute…

allowable  state.Patents.  Of  a  patent  claim,  the  condition  of  containing  patentable  subject matter in an acceptable form. [Blacks Law 8th]

allottee. One to whom an allotment is made; a recipient of an allotment. [Blacks Law 8th]

allotment system.English law. The practice of dividing land into small portions for cultivation by agricultural laborers and others. [Blacks Law 8th]

allotment note.English law. A seaman’s written assignment of a portion of his wages to a wife, parent, grand-parent, or sibling. • These notes are governed by the Merchant Shipping Act of 1970, § 13(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

allotment  certificate.Securities.  A   document  that  records  the   essential  elements  of  a subscription  of  shares,  as  how  many  shares  are  to  be  purchased,  the  price  to  be  paid,  and  the payment and delivery schedule. [Blacks Law 8th]

allotment,n.1. A share or portion of something, such as property previously held in common or shares in a cor-poration, or time assigned to speakers or sides in a deliberative assembly. [Cases: Common Lands    14. C.J.S. Common Lands §§ 17–19.] 2. In American Indian law, the selection of specific  land awarded to an individual allottee  from…

all-or-nothing rule.A gloss on the rule against perpetuities holding that a class gift is invalid in its entirety if it is invalid in part. • The effect is to invalidate a class member’s interest even if it vests within the period  of the rule because it may be subject to partial divestment by the remote…

all-or-none order.See ORDER(8). [Blacks Law 8th]